Geography
The mountains where the most important gods and goddesses lived.
What was Mount Olympus?
A type of government run by a few privileged people.
What is an oligarchy?
A type of government in which all citizens have a say in how the government is run.
What is a DIRECT democracy?
Book written by Homer that takes place during the Trojan War.
What was The Iliad?
A play with an unhappy ending.
What is a tragedy?
The body of water that Ancient Greece surrounded.
What was the Aegean Sea?
Age at which boys left home to live in army barracks.
What was age 7?
Free, native born men, aged 18 and over.
Who were citizens?
A war that started when Darius I invaded the Greek mainland.
What was the Persian War?
A book Alexander the Great kept beneath his pillow as a child.
What is The Iliad?
A large island southeast of the Greek mainland.
What is Crete?
Age at which men could return home after living in the army barracks.
What was age 30?
An instrument boys learned to play in school.
What is the lyre?
A battle famous for a Greek warrior who who ran 26 miles to Athens to report a Greek victory.
What was the Battle of Marathon?
A philosopher known for teaching students to think and was sentenced to death.
Who was Socrates?
The peninsula where Sparta is located.
What is the Populousness?
Age at which men retired from the military.
What was age 60?
An alliance formed to protect Greeks from the Persians.
What was the Delian League?
A war between Sparta and Athens.
What was the Peloponnesus War?
A demi-god who had to perform 12 labors.
Who was Heracles?
Turkey is the modern day country.
What is Lydia in Asia Minor?
The only reason travel abroad was permitted in Sparta.
What was war/military reasons?
A nobleman who cancelled farmers' debts and freed those farmers who had been enslaved.
Who was Solon?
A strategy in which one side does not seek to win battles, but only to tire out the enemy so they will give up.
What is a War of Attrition?
A Greek word that means "like the Greeks."
What is Hellenistic?